Kamloops city staff aren’t sure if 2019 will be a third-straight record year of construction.

Building and Engineering Development Manager Jason Dixon was asked when the building permit value was nearly $210 million at the end of September.

That value is $75 million less than the construction value for all of 2018.

” We could hit another record obviously. It was a record last year and we’re a little bit of that this year,” he said. “But I, at this point, wouldn’t be willing to say we’re going to get there. The potential exists, but it depends on the value of the permits we have in hand, what can get processed, what gets picked up and actually gets out the door.”

Dixon says there are more than 100 residential building permits waiting to be processed.

“We’ll do our best to crank those as quickly as possible, and it’ll be interesting to see what effect that has on statistic as we move towards the end of the year,” he said.

In 2018, the city issued $285 million worth of building permits, which was a record. It beat the 2017 record of $224 million in approved permits.